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Ummm....
A blank doesn't have a 25 caliber ballistic tip...
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I wasn't saying that the round supplied was a blank, that's absolutely ridiculous. I showed that as an example of a double shouldered round. Nothing else.
Triphammer, that explanation is probably right, the shapes seem correct. Special chamber, custom dies, painfully difficult case forming, all intended to turn a 25-06 into a half baked half crazy .257 Roberts class rifle cartridge.
I once met a guy who put a four barrel carburetor on his four cylinder Vega, it could be done so he bought a case of beer one weekend and did it.
This took a lot more work, but I think that the same principle was involved.
I've come to believe that whoever did this actually had the rifle made to go with it, but it's possible that the guy just sat in his shop and made the rounds.
How many dies, how many steps would it have taken to form those cases?